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Veiled Threats Directed against Russia: U.S. Expands Missile Shield Into Black Sea They need not have been, though, as the expansion of the U.S. global, layered, integrated interceptor missile system into the Black Sea was as foreseeable as it is inevitable. ‘Peace Prize’ President Submits Largest War Budget Ever. Obama Seeks Record $708 Billion in Defense Budget.   Murders at Guantánamo: Scott Horton and Andy Worthington talk to Jeff Farias …I explained the outline of the story, which focuses on the testimony of Army Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman and three other members of the US military, who have presented a coherent explanation for how the men were, in fact, taken to a secret facility outside the main perimeter fence of Guantánamo on the evening of June 9, 2006, where they died – either accidentally, as a result of torture that went too far, or beca…   U.S. Air-Sea Battle Plan in Strategy Review Over Perceived China, Iran Threats

 

 

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Global Village Market: Haiti Earthquake Relief and The Bahamas Red Cross

 

Is Stephen Harper crashing the BC Legislature?
Even stranger is that, according to Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer, it was Mr. Harper who invited himself, rather than accepting an offer to speak …

 

Awash in a sea of debt. Oblivious to the risks, Canadians are piling on record debt loads.
Household debt levels in Canada are fast approaching the dangerous levels seen in foreclosure-ravaged America.

 

Dubai will issue an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if Israel is found to be implicated in the murder of a top militant Palestinian in the emirate, The National newspaper reported on Friday.

 

 

 

Afghanistan & NATO: Figleaf Summit ~ by Eric Wahlberg

 

Dick Cheney thought the US occupation would see a quadrupling of Iraq’s capacity to pump oil, and a privatization of its production. Not quite.

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS

 

Germany’s Bayer (BAYGn.DE) was ordered by a jury in the United States to pay $1.5 million in damages to three farmers for losses they incurred because of contaminations of Bayer’s genetically modified rice, the second in about 500 similar cases pending.

 

10 STATES ABOUT TO GET MURDERED BY CHINESE IMPORT SLOWDOWN

CURRENCY CRISIS IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS

 

The war profiteers (including those on the ‘left’)  –Today the New York Times offers an editorial on war profiteering in Iraq but we need to remember, it wasn’t just the munitions makers, not just the weapons makers, it was the faux peace set, it was the pseudo activists. It is Amy Goodman, Norman Solomon, Tom Hayden and so damn many others who made like nobody’s heart bled more on your TV and radio pretending to give a damn about the Iraq War – – the ongoing Iraq War – – whenever they ha…

 

 

 

 

 

 

I Don’t Know ~ By Luc Majno

 

NEW SCIENTIST: DIGITAL DOOMSDAY AND THE END OF KNOWLEDGE  My comment: Communities need to be saving old textbooks, handouts, magazines, information in print to create libraries because they will be the only source of formal education for future generations alongside the practical skills they will be forced to learn.

 

CLIMATE CHANGE: SHOOT THE MESSENGER, NOT THE MESSAGE  Climate change science is reeling from a series of scandals. They’re embarrassing, says Steve Connor, but don’t alter the facts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIDEOS

 

I’m sure most of you heard the shity news about how the USSC is gleefully allowing corporate cronies to open the lobbyist flood gates to buy-off our politicians. Well, Roberts, Scalia, Scalito, Thomas, and the flopper, Kennedy, are all Catholic and will take away individual rights as fast as they can. Next on the list is Roe v. Wade. In the spirit of ‘faith’ for which the mallet will fall, I offer this lovely sing-along music video to honor things to come~VinceGuarisco

 

It’s Your Call ~ dedicated to the Younger Generation A plea to the Younger Generation, the ones who will either help us trash this Sacred Planet or SAVE Her… In this film, I am honoring the Student in all of us, and trying to show them the challenges we all face. …

Submitted by Luc Majno

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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